A New Zealand parliamentary committee has proposed that three Māori MPs be suspended from parliament for their protest haka ...

A New Zealand parliamentary committee has recommended the unprecedented suspensions of three Maori politicians for performing ...

Indigenous Maori lawmakers have decried a push to temporarily banish them from New Zealand’s parliament, after disrupting the ...

The leaders of New Zealand’s Maori Party and one of their MPs face an unprecedented ban from parliament for performing a ...

In November 2024, three legislators from the Te Pati Maori party performed a protest haka in parliament against a contentious treaty bill. A New Zealand government committee has recommended that three ...

Three New Zealand legislators from Te Pati Maori, the Maori Party, will receive temporary bans from parliament and severe ...

Three New Zealand lawmakers from Te Pati Maori, the Maori Party, will receive temporary bans from Parliament and severe censure, it was announced Wednesday, over their protest of a proposed law by ...

The haka is a chanting dance of challenge ... havoc and reversed decades of progress for Maori, New Zealand’s indigenous people. Video of the legislators in full cry drew global attention ...

While both haka and Maori ceremonial dance and song are not ... “When tangata whenua [Indigenous people] resist, colonial powers reach for the maximum penalty,” the party said, adding ...